Friday, October 28, 2016

Stand4Truth Conference Will Focus On The “Politically Incorrect Truth About Sexuality And Gender.” The
second annual “Stand4Truth” conference will be held on October 28 and
29 in Houston, TX. The conference purports to tell the “politically
incorrect truth about sexuality and gender,” with sessions like “The
Truth About Ex-Gay Ministries” and “The Truth of Transgenderism in Ft.
Worth” that will advocate for harmful and discredited “ex-gay”
reparative therapy.

. . . Representatives From Five Different Anti-LGBT Hate Groups Will Speak Throughout The Conference. Sandy
Rios of the American Family Association (AFA), Peter Sprigg of the
Family Research Council (FRC), Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, Brian
Camenker of Mass Resistance, and Steve Hotze of the Conservative
Republicans of Texas are all scheduled to speak at the Stand4Truth
Conference. All five groups have been designated as anti-gay "hate
groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for their extremist
rhetoric and peddling of "known falsehoods" about the LGBT community. At
last year’s conference, Camenker proclaimed that LGBT rights advocates
would “send us to concentration camps if they could.”

In The Texas Observer, SPLC Senior Fellow Called The Conference A “Witch’s Coven Of Haters.” In an interview with the Texas Observer,
SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok described the conference as a “witch’s
coven of haters.” Dan Quinn, a spokesperson for the Texas Freedom
Network, similarly described the conference attendees as “political
activists who delight in generating hate and contempt for LGBT people
across the country.”

. . . Sponsors Include Multiple Hate Groups And Advocates For Reparative “Ex-Gay” Therapy. Sponsors
of the Stand4Truth conference include Mass Resistance, Liberty Counsel,
and a project of Family Watch International (We Are Voices Of Change)
-- all of which are designated anti-LGBT hate groups. Other sponsors
include David Pickup, whose “Reparative Therapy” organization's website
claims that “homosexual attractions” result from “unfulfilled” approval
from “primary male relationships”; Light Wins, an anti-gay
movie Salon described as 2015’s most “bigoted, dishonest and disgusting
film”; and Joel 2:25 International, a Texas-based reparative therapy
organization that works internationally to heal the “emotional wounds
and relational brokenness” of people “who experience same-sex
attraction.”

My guess is the "common sense" these "individuals" are talking about will include statements like the following from FRC's Sprigg in 2008:

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